{"id":35508,"date":"2012-04-12T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/?p=35508"},"modified":"2012-04-12T21:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:54:47","slug":"die-armee-der-winkenden-katzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/die-armee-der-winkenden-katzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Armee der winkenden Katzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/38796123?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=8c3935\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>(<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/38796123\">Direktlink<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Im Kontext zu dem  Sound eine verdammt sehenswerte, interaktive Installation mit 520 <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maneki_Neko\">Maneki Neko<\/a>, den winkenden Katzen. Gebaut hat diese Armee des Gl\u00fccks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrovsky.de\/\">Boris Petrovsky<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The material element of the installation\u00bbThe Global Pursuit of Happiness, or: The Army of Luck\u00ab is the \u00bbLucky Cats&#8216; Matrix\u00ab. It contains 520 shiny golden XXL Lucky Cats made of plastics which are arranged in 40 rows and 13 columns on a ramp-like stand made of aluminum (W 8 m, H 3 m, D 2 m).<br \/>\nVisitors experience the Lucky Cats&#8216; Matrix as a dot-matrix display which consists of 520 waving paw grid points as its \u00bbpixels\u00ab. In each cat a servomotor is built in to control the paws move exactly in position and speed.<br \/>\nThe visitors are requested imaginarily by the cats to interact as users: &#8222;Your concept of happiness is our lucky command. Write it on the keyboard&#8220;.<br \/>\nWords and sentences up to 40 characters can be put in and are displayed clearly visible with the paws letter by letter as sliding text marquee. So to say, the users \u00bbchoreograph\u00ab the Lucky Cats performance wordwise. Literally it is the \u00bbinscription\u00ab of an idea of happiness or a wish in the Lucky Cats&#8216; bodies by moving their paws forward and backward.<br \/>\nFor users, the Lucky Cats become multiplied \u00bbavatars\u00ab in the world of chance and happiness. But the Lucky Cats are also able to perform spontaneously as well: they can show 25 different salutatory and signalizing gestures as well as mass movements like the \u00bbMexican Wave\u00ab or an ecstatic \u00bbhyperkinesis\u00ab. Every displayed sentence triggers audio events \u2013 sound samples of mass or group events, like entertainment shows, political speeches, demonstrations, sport events, parades, accidents, etc. from the beginning of the last century until today. The sounds express auditorily different states of mind, like joy, euphoria, desire, fear, hate, aggression and resignation, astonishment, outrage, pain, panic, desperation and fanatical excitement. The sounds are played in random order and unpredictable combinations. Different contexts and changing settings are emerging.<br \/>\nAre the Lucky Cats \u00bbone-armed bandits\u00ab? Or is it a gesture in the context of a political or religious movement? Is it a just a happy waving of the fun-loving, hedonistic society? Or is the assembly of Lucky Cats a revolutionary deployment of \u00bbwish machines\u00ab as \u00bbarmy of luck\u00ab or is it just another marketing campaign?<br \/>\nThe lined up, gold-reflecting mass of the Lucky Cats in the matrix appears almost as an insubstantially copy-paste-animation. The Lucky Cats in the matrix as an industrial made product become an \u00bbornament of the masses\u00ab for repetetive-stererotype and globalized-industrialized ideals. Do we need more and more Lucky Cats to generate more and more prosperity for more and more people?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Direktlink) Im Kontext zu dem Sound eine verdammt sehenswerte, interaktive Installation mit 520 Maneki Neko, den winkenden Katzen. Gebaut hat diese Armee des Gl\u00fccks Boris&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/die-armee-der-winkenden-katzen\/\">Mehr lesen -&gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Die Armee der winkenden Katzen<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visuelles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXEnA-9eI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}